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Windows 7: Unlock a hard drive

Well I wouldnt actually say it's locked, but I know i'm confused. I have this external hard drive, and when I was running vista somehow locked the drive, and when i installed windows 7 it took me forever but I finally got to access my files. Only now if I hook it up to a different computer I can't access it, while my other hard drive I have no problems. Also the files on the drive all have pictures of locks on them which is just annoying. Anyone have any ideas as what I can do to solve this?

Unlock a hard drive

BitLocker Drive Encryption - Unlock a Locked OS DriveHow to Unlock a Windows 7 Computer Locked by BitLocker Drive Encryption
This will show you how to unlock a computer that the drive Windows 7 is installed on was locked by BitLocker Drive Encryption, and now cannot be accessed.
If the drive that Windows is installed on (the operating...

Tutorials

BitLocker Drive Encryption - Unlock a Locked Data or Removable DriveHow to Unlock a Data or Removable Drive Locked by BitLocker Drive Encryption
This will show you how to unlock a internal data drive or a removable drive (ex: USB flash drive or external) that was locked by BitLocker Drive Encryption in Windows 7, and now cannot be accessed.
These drives...

Tutorials

How can I unlock my hard drive clean with HDAT2?Hello, I have an acer aspire one that has been sitting around and I have not been able to use it because the hard disk got locked with a password randomly one day... that was years ago, now I am just trying to do a clean install and wipe everything from the hard drive but I cant even access it. I...

Hardware & Devices

Unlock :D drive of my computerMy computers : D drive is locked with bitLocker encrypt. But I have forget my password and lost bitLocker recovery disk. Please help me to get the password.

General Discussion

The OS drive must be protected by Bitlocker to automatically unlock.Hey, I'm trying to configure my secondary internal HDD to lock with bitlocker, since acronis won't back it up well with truecrypt, but I still want to encrypt my OS drive with truecrypt since I don't have a TPM, and have to use a USB key to unlock it at startup, which I think is a vulnerability...